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Bibliography about Phrenology
| Title | Phrenology |
| Authors | Sybil Leek |
| Published | Collier-Macmillan |
| ISBN | 75-113936 |
| Pages | 154 |
| Description | Written by occultist and "practising witch" Sybil Leek, this popularising volume is typically one of the works which give Phrenology a bad name as a "pseudo-science". The reader may at first be deceived by a quite correct description of the history of the science; when it comes to the description of faculties however, one can find whole pages which are unscrupulously copied from earlier works by Wells, without any acknowledgement or bibliographical reference, making the book a blatant case of plagiarism. Further on, the author suggests the reader to set up a commercial phrenological parlour and to start reading heads at $50 a piece, thus taking the same way than the 19th century itinerant phrenologists |
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